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Thursday, March 30, 2017

#1816: Sharon Kass

We’ll give Raymond Ronald Karczewski, who claims to be Jesus
Christ and out to free everyone else from Satanic mind control through his website
and youtube videos, a pass. Perhaps Sharon Kass should have been given a pass
for similar reasons, but she has been trolling LGQBT people for years with emails extolling reparative therapy and the ex-gay group NARTH. She has apparently written for the delusional
conspiracy website WND,
too.

According to Kass “GayScam is a moral and constitutional
atrocity,” and “[t]he Fourteenth
Amendment doesn’t apply to people with homosexuality or transgenderism – no
matter what the half-loony Supreme Court says (the loony half including
Kennedy),” ostensibly because “[h]omosexuality
is abnormal, distorted sexuality.” Homosexuality can, however, “be prevented through gender-affirmative
practices on the part of parents and parent figures,” and “successfully treated through modern
psychodynamic psychotherapy and same-sex mentoring,” which is not correct.
Apparently she is under the, uh, conviction that sending emails making these
claims to gay people will somehow have a desired effect. According to Kass “GayScam could end as soon as 2021.” We
have no idea whatsoever what premises led her to draw that conclusion.

She received some flak in 2013, when she targeted a
11-year-old who successfully petitioned a Tennessee StudentsFirst group to rescind an education award from state rep. John
Ragan, sponsor of the pro-bullying “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Kass wrote to the
boy’s father telling him that he was responsible for his homosexuality (Kass's formulations were less well-hinged), a “disorder of deep-seated gender self-alienation.” Apparently a poor
relationship with fathers is a main cause of atheism as well.

In fairness, we are not entirely
sure Sharon Kass is a real person called “Sharon Kass”, but whoever is behind
those emails certainly deserves to be called out.

Diagnosis: “A bad, hateful person” seems to sum her up well
enough. Her influence is relatively limited, and she may conceivably hurt the
anti-gay movement more than help it.